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Mar 2016
Rethinking and Reorganizing Formal Spaces
Rethinking and Reorganizing Formal Spaces Many industry experts from architects to real estate agents and professional organizers alike agree that formal spaces like dining rooms and formal living rooms are becoming increasingly obsolete for many people. As early as 1992, home builders and architects forecasted the elimination of such spaces due to the way we are living in the current world. Television is cited as...
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Mar 2016Organizing Awkward Spaces Part III: The Eave-entual Challenge
Organizing Awkward Spaces Part III: The Eave-entual Challenge One final place I should address is the existence of eaves in closets and other storage areas. Cape Cod style homes, farmhouses, old buildings and even contemporary architecture often have eaves within closets and pantries or laundry areas. In particular, closets suffer the most from the intrusion. There is typically a single shelf and a rod for...
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Mar 2016Organizing Awkward Spaces Part II: Inherited Space
Organizing Awkward Spaces Part II: Inherited Space Hello and welcome to Part II for our Organizing Awkward Spaces Blog Series. Today we’ll help you out sort out those spaces you’ve inherited that are set up with someone else’s hobby or profession in mind. What on earth can you do with a closet entirely designed for the storage of hair coloring tubes? Or a garage space...
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Feb 2016Organizing Awkward Spaces Part I: Your Kitchen
Organizing Awkward Spaces Part I: Your Kitchen Welcome to our latest blog series: Organizing Awkward Spaces. In this series, we’ll cover all of those odd spaces you don’t know what to do with. Here in Part I, we’ll help you tackle those awkward spaces in your kitchen. If you live in a small home, you are probably aware of the challenges of organizing: limited closet space,...
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Jan 2016A Professional Organizer can help reduce stress – in more ways than you know!
A Professional Organizer can help reduce stress – in more ways than you know! By Kate Altieri: Professional Organizer, Organizing Boston The Holmes and Rahe Life-Stress Inventory is a list of 43 events in life that can cause people the most stress. And as we all know, stress can lead to health and other problems if not managed well. You may not think of hiring...
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Jan 2016How to Create a Successful Paper Management System
How to Create a Successful Paper Management System As the new year gets underway, it’s time to gather your papers for taxes, it’s also a good time to check your paper management system and see if it’s working for you. We get a lot of calls here at Organizing Boston from people who are buried in paper and panicking as tax season draws near. If...
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Jan 2016Why you Should Hire a Professional Organizer Before you Renovate
Why you Should Hire a Professional Organizer Before you Renovate By Kate Altieri: Professional Organizer, Organizing Boston I have a client who recently completed a substantial renovation to the main level of their home. They consulted with a well-respected Boston architect, worked with a high end builder/contractor and collaborated extensively with a talented decorator. The main level renovation included the kitchen, family room, powder room...
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Dec 2015New Year, Fresh Start!
New Year, Fresh Start! By Kate Altieri, Professional Organizer, Organizing Boston If getting organized is one of your New Year’s Resolutions, why not get started right away? Most of us have New Year’s Day off of work. I do. And I spend it making a fresh start for the New Year. Are you ending 2015 overwhelmed by paper? Has the mail has piled up in...
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